Strawberry Farm
(24/03/06)

ST. PATRICK'S DAY @ THE SONGCHON-DONG SWATON LANGUAGE SCHOOL FOR KIDS

Hey Folks, please enjoy these photos from our St. Paddy's day. We spent Friday morning with our kindergarten kids doing various Irish related coloring and crafts (in one of our many attempts to aviod doing any real work). Please note that this is the debut of Troy-teacher's new kindergarten classes to the dong

The girls pictured above from are from my 6 year old (Korean age, they are really 4 years old). Actually, they are the class. There are only two kids. They are very cute but don't be decieved. At first they were terrified of Troy-teacher and would cry within seconds of laying eyes on him. In more recent week they have prefered to run around the class, try to break anything I bring into the classroom and fighting amongst themselves to show how much they care.

My new 7 (5) year old class standing proudly in front of their shamrocks

Alwyn-teacher chose to do something a little more involved than coloring printed from the net. Alwyn's classes and Alwyn-teacher made themselves each a shamrock necklace and can be seen modelling them above.

Festivities aside, all is well in the dong. It looks like we're over the worst of the cold weather and we are hoping to start doing some travelling throughout Korea in the not too distant future.

Hope everyone out there is keeping well.

Til Next Time.

May your glass be ever full.

May the roof over your head be always strong.

And may you be in heaven

half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!

However you are choosing to spend your St. Paddy's I hope there is a little (or a lot) of Irish in all of ya.

Cheers to ya and don't forget to wear something green.

Looks like the good folks at Korea's meteorological service got it right. For today I have been sitting in my classroom staring aimlessly out the window (I do that from time to time) to see snow falling. Thats right, Its the middle of the first month of spring and its snowing. I keep saying to myself "this will be the last time, this will be the last time". Lets hope so.

It seems this winter still has some kick in it. While Friday was a beautiful sunny day that rose to 18 degrees Celsius (the warmest day we've had since the start of this god awful winter), today there was high of 0 degrees C and its predicted to snow tonight. I sincerely hope this is the last we see of the winter weather.

Roll on spring,

- T